This paper proposes an analysis of the process of the catalanism, the festive models and castells to interpret how this relationship is historical and has gone through different stages. Until the fifties catalanism was allied with the sardanes, the festive model of Catalunya Vella, from this moment and with the beginning of ...[+]

This paper proposes an analysis of the process of the catalanism, the festive models and castells to interpret how this relationship is historical and has gone through different stages. Until the fifties catalanism was allied with the sardanes, the festive model of Catalunya Vella, from this moment and with the beginning of modernitat castellera, alliances are strengthened with castells, the festive model of Catalunya Nova. This transitional process takes place because castells can face the challenges of the new Spanish reality and the new catalanism that will guide the process of building the Catalonia we live in today[-]